Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
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Essex Street in Phillipstown – formerly Old Stanmore Road and Gordon Street. Named after Essex, a county in the East of England. Old Stanmore Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1870. Re-named Gordon Street in 1881. Re-named Essex Street on 7 March 1904. Among a number of streets re-named in 1904 and given …
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Clothier Street in Phillipstown – Named after Samuel Clothier (1825-1889). Clothier and his family lived there for 4 years after arriving in Canterbury in 1850. Sections for sale in Clothier Street are advertised in the Star in 1883. First appears in street directories in 1892 A small amount of information from the library website. Papers …
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Elmdale Lane in Phillipstown- First appears in street directories in 1987. A tiny amount of information from the library website. Not much information on Papers Past and it was just ads for businesses. The earliest ads in 1985 has it as Elmsdale Lane. I couldn’t find anyone with that surname or a place name in …
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Winfield Drive in Wigram – Named after Denis Winfield (1899- 1979). Winfield was a farmer from Inglewood, Taranaki. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 17 June 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first …
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Orr Street in Wigram – Named after Eric James Orr (1897- 1961). Orr was a farmer of Hawkston in Hawkes Bay. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on August 24 1917. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list …
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Olson Way in Wigram – Named after Edward “Ted” George Olson (1906-1945). Air Commodore Olson was Wigram base commander January 1938-April 1938. Named to continue the theme in the Wigram Skies subdivision of naming streets after people involved in the air force in New Zealand. There are a number of streets named after former RNZAF …
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McKendry Road in Wigram – Named after John Henry McKendry (1893-1969). McKendry was a farmer from Lyndhurst, Canterbury. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 30 January 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first …
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Keith Street in Wigram – Named after Ian Herbert Neill Keith (1898- 1978).Keith was a student from Napier. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 12 April 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first …
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Validation Place in Middleton – Still nothing on library website either the old or new and I originally walked this street in March 2019 and I wasn’t doing the research on Papers Past back then. This is what I wrote then – Marylands Place in Middleton was not on the library website so I have …
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Denali Street in Halswell – Named after Denali National Park & Reserve in Alaska. In the Knights Stream Park subdivision where streets have been named with a common theme of World Heritage sites and national and major parks around the world. A small amount of information from the library website. Denali is a native word …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project